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What an amazing night thank you so much for helping us achieve the highest honour... Playing Wembley stadium :D pic.twitter.com/K9HBS4Ndqy— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) June 7, 2014

Obama, who has 43 million twitter followers, struggled to get more than 10,000 retweets on his post about gun control.

To be fair Obama’s post has only been up for a day and the response is excellent compared to the number of retweets he usually gets. Most get a few hundred retweets or a response in the low thousands. With one notable exception:

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@BarackObama You always talk about guns, not people. Should we ban cars to stop drunk drivers? How about the dangers of cutlery?— Martin W. Schwartz ћ (@Swohtz) June 12, 2014

Even among supporters, some found Obama’s clicktivism a little ironic, and desperate.

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“@BarackObama: Retweet if you agree with the President pic.twitter.com/q7j7RvXyRg” Using Guns For Retweets? Thats Low. Stop Begging For Retweets— mojo jojo (@theresnooneroad) June 12, 2014

@BarackObama now enact something. Don't complain about people not being on board. You can bomb people on a whim so pass a smart gun law.

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@BarackObama now enact something. Don't complain about people not being on board. You can bomb people on a whim so pass a smart gun law.— (Chad)Rodriguez (@chadrodriguez) June 12, 2014